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Re: Lead You Astray

Nicola — Mon, 26 Oct 2015 11:48:44 -0000

I was thinking about the very same thing today but your'e at least 5 steps ahead of me. I wondered where you'd been, and am glad to hear it's been working for you. I'll be taking some of these ideas forward for November – planning to use the excitement around NaNoWriMo to get ahead with a new writing project. Good luck with everything.

Re: World Book Night: Staff Picks!

Nicola — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 10:52:00 -0000

I'm giving away Noughts and Crosses by Malorie Blackman. Can't beat a good dystopia! The Eyre Affair sounds fun.

Re: Manhattan’s Forgotten Film Studio by Charles Simic | NYRblog | The New York Review of Books

Nicola — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 05:11:26 -0000

Thanks very much!

Re: Manhattan’s Forgotten Film Studio by Charles Simic | NYRblog | The New York Review of Books

Nicola — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 08:23:59 -0000

Great read, thank you for posting this. If you've any recommendations for books to read about Keaton I'd love to know. I've read The Wonderful World of Slapstick and I've been looking for more. Hope you get a chance to reply. Cheers!

Re: The secrets of successful blogger outreach

Nicola — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 08:02:30 -0000

Thanks for the linkback, Marc! Some great resources here, as always.

Re: Blah at Best: Not-for-Bedtime Blogger Outreach Horror Stories

Nicola — Fri, 11 May 2012 11:01:09 -0000

Hi Sean, thanks for your thoughts, and it's lovely to hear you found this worth reading. We'll have some more posts coming up on how to do blogger outreach well - hopefully they'll stick!

Thanks so much for reading,

Nicola

Re: Blah at Best: Not-for-Bedtime Blogger Outreach Horror Stories

Nicola — Wed, 09 May 2012 09:29:30 -0000

Hi Ben, great to hear your thoughts! I have to agree - as a blogger I often receive similar automated emails or "link exchanges", which are often off-putting.

Have you received good offers as you describe before, and would you have been inclined to define it as "blogger outreach"? Having experienced the ways it is talked about in PR I'm interested in how bloggers perceive outreach.

Re: The Death (And Coming Rebirth?) Of Comic Con

Nicola — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 21:32:26 -0000

Two small(ish) corrections: There were at least 5000 people in the room for Coppola, and only about 500 or so chairs had been removed from Hall H on Sunday - the very back sections which aren't full rows. A lot of people did leave during Coppola, but even the smaller sized Hall H was packed out and there was still a line throughout the rest of Sunday for Supernatural, It's Always Sunny, etc.

Re: Blog Every Day April: Day Four – Advice

Nicola — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 15:56:20 -0000

Very pretty, I love the font!

Re: Oops.

Nicola — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 20:35:23 -0000

Hi Laura, will you still be reviewing or doing the odd book post? I managed 50 the last 2 years, but this year I only managed 47, though I did start writing reviews more often. I'm always a little jealous that you have three years worth of 52 books with recorded thoughts. I've always enjoyed your blog so I hope you'll be sticking around regardless!

Re: http://blog.quotabl.es/post/1609839637

Nicola — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 14:13:40 -0000

Is there an Advanced Riskology diploma? That would be pretty sweet!

The point about buying from people you like is good -- someone should tell the Apprentice contestants that once in awhile.

Re: “Critique My Profile” Episode 4: Tweet your personality

Nicola — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 18:44:49 -0000

Hello! I've just come across your blog for the first time, and I'm glad I did! This is a great series.

I'll put myself in the running - my handle is @robotnic. I blog and contribute to a few websites, but I've been taking a break so there aren't a whole lot of tweets linking to those atm. Any suggestions to kick my ass back into gear are welcome, of course, hah.

Re the mundanity discussion - I think a certain amount of the mundane is always fun, but not necessarily the "what I'm eating" anecdote. I often tweet the name of the book I'm reading or film I'm watching/on my way to the cinema to watch, and those tend to generate replies. Mundane and boring aren't necessarily the same thing, especially if other people can relate to it and say, "me too!" or "let me know how that goes," and so on.

Re: 52Books - #45: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki...

Nicola — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:26:47 -0000

I'm so glad you read this! Apparently the English versions have stuff missing from the original Japanese, something to do with a page limit and so things were cut out. I've no idea what, or which plotlines, and no Japanese people I've met so far have read this book (damnit!) Someone told me about this but I haven't really researched it. Just thought you might be interested :)

Re: July 28th, 2009

Nicola — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 20:46:00 -0000

Super stylin'!

Re: 52Books - #22: How to be Good by Nick Hornby How to be...

Nicola — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 18:35:54 -0000

There's something about Nick Hornby that's readable but extremely tepid. I read this a few years ago and I remember feeling the same way. Zoe Heller goes the whole way and tries to create characters that are not at all likeable. Might be worth a read, if you haven't read anything by her already.

Re: Dangerous Stuff:

Nicola — Thu, 21 May 2009 15:07:18 -0000

Magnolia as in, "let's hit up Magnolia and mack on some cupcakes" from Lazy Sunday?

Re: I purchased new glasses.

Nicola — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 11:50:12 -0000

I demand pictures of new glasses & cowboy boots.

Re: Joyce (, James -- not Carol Oates)

Nicola — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 07:32:17 -0000

Ahh I almost ordered it on bookmooch the other day. Don't know my Irish poetry though, only some Seamus Heany. However I did order Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man.

Re: I've Inherited a Tragedy - I love how you love me

Nicola — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 09:47:33 -0000

I wanna see it soooo bad! There isn't even a release date here yet so I'm so not reading this. But I'm sure it's excellent x

Re: Voyage à Claremont

Nicola — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 08:14:13 -0000

Boooo I wanna hang out with you and David!

Re: 52Books - list of novels, the action of which takes place within 24 hours

Nicola — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 11:43:44 -0000

Alsooo...

Let it Snow by Maureen Johnston, John Green & Lauren Myracle
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby - ? not entirely sure, it's been awhile.
Franny & Zooey by JD Salinger is 2 chapters/parts which are a day each.

Re: 52Books - list of novels, the action of which takes place within 24 hours

Nicola — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 11:17:00 -0000

Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist by David Levithan & Rachel Cohn

Re: Caturday

Nicola — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 08:29:54 -0000

Have you tried freecycle? http://www.freecycle.org/

Sounds odd, but when people are moving/having kids and can no longer accommodate their pets they post them there sometimes. That's how I got mine and he's adorable, had him for 2.5 years now!

Re: 52Books - #3: Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami At the...

Nicola — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 20:19:29 -0000

This made me want to re-read it! Murakami is one of my favourite authors, I recommend his short stories too; it's amazing how many incredible stories can come from that man's mind!

Re: 52Books - Drownes in sound: Can reading and music ever go together?

Nicola — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 19:38:12 -0000

I'm far too aurally focused to be able to read and listen to music simultaneously. I try to leave the music to the background but I can't keep my ear from catching the changes in the music, a new instrument coming in, etc. I wish I could but both are too equally fascinating to my brain to shut one off in favour of the other.